NGC 869 / 884 Double Cluster in Perseus

[rjbokleman]

I posted this target back in late August after acquiring the AT65EDQ. I think you'll agree this is a much better run at the Double Cluster.



This time I took slightly longer 'Lights' (300 seconds instead of 240 seconds), added more 'Darks', used 'Flats' and 'Bias' frames. Used my newly aquired iOptron iEQ45 Pro mount, instead of the AVX, and totally processed this one using PixInsight (by hand, not the BatchPreprocessing script) and used the Drizzle algorithm to boot.

I think I could probably clip the 'black' just a bit more, but overall I think it came out much better than the previous attempt.

[Bruce D]

Beautiful Ron, just lovely

[AndyG]

Wonderful image!

Head and shoulders above the prior attempt.